Month: April 2014

If a child is a passionate learner

Here is my assertion (although, perhaps it can only be made as an assumption): Every child is a passionate learner.  Now I’m not alone in this: Robert L. Fried, as Associate Professor at Northeastern U. argues this in his book The Passionate Learner (Beacon Press, 2001).  He says: Children come into the world with a […]

The New Quebec

Perhaps the seismic shift that the new Premier talked about for Quebec, is actually for all of Canada.  With the majority that he has, and if he keeps firmly focused on the future with a steady hand on the tiller, he can move beyond any fallout from the Charbonneau inquiry by simply repeating the mantra […]